Cheers, old chap. Here's hoping! Not that the job looks like it'll be getting easier any time soon. 😄

So true. Music is, as the man said, the best. Here's to keeping on keeping on. ✊️ Thanks for the solidarity. I'm a lucky fella, I have a lot of wonderful people supporting me, but you know how it is - it's felt like a pretty lonely road at times all the same. That's life, as the song goes.

Cheers, mate. 👊 Hope you're doing OK? I confess I've not been paying much attention to my socials for a while now.

Thank you. And you're right, it does feel a bit like there is a tipping point, and once things start to happen it's like a row of dominoes. There seems to be an age where this is simply inevitable, and I guess I reached it.

Anyway, if anyone was wondering: not dead, just undergoing a metamorphosis. See you on the other side.

Reading other posts, this seems to happen to many people my age. Things fall apart, and we find ourselves rediscovering/reinventing ourselves; taking stock and making changes we probably should have made a long time ago. That's how it feels for me. HippyDave is dead. HippyDave v2.0 is in beta test.

I am intrigued. Cheers, will go and have a listen. 😀

Yeah, I've noticed this more and more recently, especially (and understandably) with albums that have gone a long time without being reissued. Legacy labels like Esoteric/Cherry Red etc are doing us all a solid re-issuing some deep catalogue items with such care.

Definitely quite torn over the local election results. Clearly it's appalling to see Farage's goons doing so well, but on the other hand it's pure popcorn fodder to see the Tories so thoroughly humiliated once again. If this is the beginning of the end of the party for good, bring it on.

Diolch yn fawr. No, despite my best efforts to catch a lift with any passing intergalactic visitors, I'm still here. 🙃

Thank you, mate. I'll have a much better idea of where I stand after this month, and if it all goes tits up, at least I have a holiday to look forward to. 😃

"Yes, but it's MY shit!" proclaim thousands of faeces-encrusted bed-shitters. 😄

We almost certainly are becoming more generally intolerant/right-wing as a country. The easy answers these jokers peddle are seductive to the dissatisfied, and the left has no answer to them, it seems.

Perhaps there is a concern that passers-by might think it was a request to bewitch people rather than to enter the building. 😄

Wonderful - a great read!

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